When asked how they identify their social class 54% of Americans said they belong to the middle class, according to one survey.

A characteristic of the hegemonic political and media culture of the United States is the near invisibility of social class as a major determinant of power. Race and gender have finally started to ...

You could call it class warfare, except the warfare is on the very idea of class. For generations now, various prominent scholars have decided we’d be better off abolishing it. Back in 1939, the ...

Mike Savage calls on sociologists to resolve their differences over definitions of social class to allow better analyses of inequality. Global economic divisions have become so stark in the past ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Understanding where you fall in the American economic class system isn't as simple as pulling out a calculator or looking at a pay ...